On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Taylor R Campbell <campb...@mumble.net> wrote: > Instead of ECDSA, why not Ed25519? It is unencumbered by patents, and
So is normal ECDSA (implemented over suitable fields without particular optimizations): http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6090 > as an added benefit over DSA and ECDSA, it doesn't rely on an entropy > source to make signatures. So can ECDSA: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6979 No to say that ed25519 isn't spiffy good stuff with a nice fast implementation and all... and maybe it escapes some particular flavor of Redhat paranoia. But these properties are not unique to it. _______________________________________________ OTR-dev mailing list OTR-dev@lists.cypherpunks.ca http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/mailman/listinfo/otr-dev
